Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
Transportation Technology

Dubai Is Adding Tesla Cybertrucks To Its Police Car Fleet (futurism.com) 73

The Dubai Police department is officially planning on adding Tesla Cybertrucks to its fleet next year. Futurism reports: The official account of the Dubai Police department tweeted an image of a Cybertruck with its logos on it with the caption "2020" on Tuesday. Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri told Arabian Business that the new cars will help enhance security presence in tourist destinations. The Dubai Police department already has a pretty astonishing fleet of luxury sportscars, including some of the fastest cars in the world, from the Bugatti Veyron to the Lamborghini Aventador. [...] As for how the Dubai Police is expecting to get their hands on Cybertrucks next year when production is expected to start in late 2021 is still unclear.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Dubai Is Adding Tesla Cybertrucks To Its Police Car Fleet

Comments Filter:
  • by future assassin ( 639396 ) on Thursday November 28, 2019 @02:18AM (#59465514)
  • by Anonymous Coward

    The Cybertruck makes a lot of sense as a police vehicle, where TCO is a critical factor when deciding purchases.

  • TFA: Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri told Arabian Business that the new cars will help enhance security presence in tourist destinations.

    Are tourists getting so rowdy there the cops need high-end gear? WTF are they doing? It's not exactly the best drinking hole in the world.

    • by spth ( 5126797 )

      All the exotic vehicles Dubai Police has are used for tourist areas.

      I guess the idea is for the police to fill a dual role of both police force and tourist attraction (like the Queen's Guard or the Swiss Guard).

    • > Are tourists getting so rowdy there the cops need high-end gear?

      Say what? They want flying cops!
      https://edition.cnn.com/2018/1... [cnn.com]

      I guess just like a lots of us they like hi-tech *bling*
  • Crooks can simply take them out with metal balls. [youtube.com]

    • You might even want to combine several different outcomes. But unless you know where you want your instagram [captionsclick.com] strategy to take you.
  • by Lije Baley ( 88936 ) on Thursday November 28, 2019 @02:48AM (#59465562)

    Dubai is always putting odd things in their police fleet, even supercars. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Police_Force#Exotic_and_unusual_patrol_cars [wikipedia.org]

      • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        Do we really need "someone buys a Tesla" stories? This stupid thing isn't even going to be delivered until 2022. Are we going to have to keep hearing about it until then?

        • by h33t l4x0r ( 4107715 ) on Thursday November 28, 2019 @04:56AM (#59465740)
          Butt-hurt short-seller detected.
          • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

            I don't even live on the right continent to buy Tesla shares. Wait... Can foreigners buy them on the US markets from outside the US?

            • by _merlin ( 160982 )

              Yes, it's fairly easy to trade US-listed companies' shares from outside the US. If you want to short them, you don't even need to buy shares - you can just find a local broker who'll write a put option or CFD.

            • by Rei ( 128717 )

              Yes. Interactive Brokers, for example. There's some forms you have to fill out.

            • Yes, they can.
              Basically every european internet trading platform allows buying and selling at american exchanges.

          • Do we *really* need NEWS STORIES of somebody somewhere ... /buying. a. car/?

            You know what news are there for, right?

            No, not to serve you erotic stories for you fetish.

        • Do we really need "someone buys a Tesla" stories? This stupid thing isn't even going to be delivered until 2022. Are we going to have to keep hearing about it until then?

          I invite you to explain to the class in what way(s) the Cybertruck is a "stupid thing". 'Cuz so far all the technical arguments have been shot down, and the aesthetic argument is purely personal taste. What new argument do you bring to the table?

          • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

            I'm sure it's a lovely truck, I just mean do we have to keep hearing about pre-orders for a vehicle that may possibly be delivered 2 years later and which will be different from this prototype in some significant ways?

            Maybe when they show a production model we can have a look at that, sometime in late 2021.

        • Do we really need "someone buys a Tesla" stories? This stupid thing isn't even going to be delivered until 2022. Are we going to have to keep hearing about it until then?

          Well, it’s been pretty obvious that Slashdot’s readership includes a cadre of loyal Musk acolytes who devour these stories. And while I tend to agree with your statement, that group doesn’t - which is going to be true on most any Slashdot topic (e.g. “why do we need another Apple product announcement story?”, “oh, boy, another stable Linux kernel release!”, “Natalie Portman discloses she can’t stand grits of any kind”).

    • Dubai is always putting odd things in their police fleet, even supercars.

      For an even more menacing "Mad Max" effect, the Cybertrucks should be modified to add a manned gun turret on top . . .

      . . . armed with a Musk Boring Company flame thrower, of course.

      • by Rei ( 128717 )

        Flamethrower is almost too easy for Cybertruck. There's a compressed air port in the bed which could be used to pressurize the fuel tanks. There's also 240V power back there, in case you need to power a turret.

        I know people have been laughing at the idea that guerrillas might use them as improvised military vehicles... but honestly, they really could be. Affordable. You have more than enough payload capacity to up-armour them, beyond the armour that they already come with stock. The whole skin is structu

        • What armor do they come with stock? I don't recall a bullet-repelling demonstration.

          We're starting to surplus MRAPs now, so the terrorists will be looking for ways to get them multiple-exported into their country. Granted, they cost about twice as much as a cybertoy, but they also have genuinely functional armor.

          • by Rei ( 128717 )

            They couldn't do it live for obvious reasons, but they had video of multiple shots being fired at it. It's 3mm 30x full-hard stainless, so their claims of it being able to take 9mm rounds are perfectly reasonable.

            As for MRAPs, they cost $0,5-1M each and sales are highly restricted, and owning one means you're automatically a target. I mean, you might as well just say "Tanks have better armour than Cybertrucks". Well, duh, but that ignores the price and availability issue, which is why most guerrillas dri

      • by gtall ( 79522 )

        It can get even more menacing for the locals, they could put a woman in the cab!!

        Ahmed: Hey, lookee thar, that futuristic Po-po vehicle.

        Ahmad: Yikes...run for you lives, there's a woman in the cab...she's got a gun!!!

        Ahmed: Jesus!! We're in the End-O-Times!!!

    • ... if you got criminals driving Bugatti Veyrons, you *need* a supercar.

      Had a gaming buddy a decade ago, who owned a brand-new Corvette (like in the Transformers movies) in his early 20s, (apart from a superbike,) and could not get girls because he looked like a chump in an an 80s station wagon with wood paneling, compared to everyone else in their supercars, including the girls.

      (Over there, traditionally, you picked up girls by walking along them on a street, overtaking each other, exchanging glances. Nowa

      • ... if you got criminals driving Bugatti Veyrons, you *need* a supercar.

        No, you just need one helicopter.

    • Dubai is the definition of "more money than sense". They were also into the hyperloop IIRC.

    • Dubai is always putting odd things in their police fleet, even supercars. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Police_Force#Exotic_and_unusual_patrol_cars [wikipedia.org]

      Just goes one more step to show this thing is all about the style and nothing else. It's all well and good having fast police cars but they have to be practical as well. It's not like you're going to be putting arrested people in the back of a supercar or pickup truck.

      • by Rei ( 128717 )

        If they can put people in the back of a five-seat patrol car, why can't they put people in the back seat of a six-seat patrol pickup?

  • by Kokuyo ( 549451 ) on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:05AM (#59465586) Journal

    As ugly as I find it, I believe this thing is going to sell. Perhaps exactly because it's so odd.

    We're in a world that touts uniqueness over usefulness these days. If you could have both, I'm sure a lot of people will look beyond aesthetics or actually use aforementioned fact to judge the aesthetics higher.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Why are you assuming it is not a good truck?

      Some people (like the police) don't give a shit about looks but functionality.

    • And they are also batshit pants-on-your-head retarded.

      Didn't you know? Bad = good, nowadays.

    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      It will probably backfire the same way SUVs and trucks have. Now people just look at them as the vehicle of choice for overprotective parents, bad drivers and people who want to buy in to the lumbersexual lifestyle.

      • by Kokuyo ( 549451 )

        Is that backfiring? Seems to me that SUVs have become really pervasive on European streets.

      • by Trogre ( 513942 )

        Not that a few people's disparaging opinions of them matters at all, since people are still buying them in droves.

    • I agree it's weird, but what's un-useful about it? Some people have thought it didn't have a bed, but it does, that's just a cover.
  • Given from what I've seen, "pimpin" seems to be the style, over there. I'll be surprised if they won't make videos of drifting and riding on two wheels while sitting atop of them as if they still had horses.

  • Big kudos to the great state of UAE which finally sees the light and decides to add a few electric trucks to this police force (along with a few gas-guzzling Porsches, Land Rovers, and Lamborghinis for sure) despite being one of the world's biggest exporters of oil and soon natural gas. Amazing. Why wasn't I born in this great emirate?

  • the cybertruck is right at home in dubai, their design choices and preferences have always been very questionable.

  • Tesla estimates Cybertruck release late 2021 and 2022 for tri-motor versions. Tesla has NEVER released a car on time. I guess the Police in Dubai plan to use their time machine.

    https://www.tesla.com/cybertru... [tesla.com]

    • by Rei ( 128717 )

      I think their time machine looks like this [motor1.com] ;)

      For the record, though, Model 3 was released on time on its accelerated schedule / 6 months ahead of its original schedule; it hit huge scaleup snags, however. Model Y looks like it's going to come out six months ahead of schedule (was scheduled for Q4, has been moved up to Q2, and there are rumours of even sooner, although I think that's wishful thinking).

      • Original schedule as per Elon's master plan, dates at first reveal, dates later adjusted to production ramp fail? Which are those original dates you are referring to?

        Also, do you count delivering a dozen vehicles to Elon and high executives/investors as "delivered"? Or later when Tesla only sold to employees with NDA's? Or when it was finally available to people with reservations but only the premium/expensive models? $35K SR was definitely not 6 months earlier, nor on time, nor even only 6 months later tha

  • Take a look at their flying motorcycle [youtube.com] They seem to take crowd dispersal too literally me thinks.

    So no surprises here. They will buy a cybertruck, paint it in police insignia and use it as a tourist attraction. Dubai does not have oil revenue. Its main industry is laundry, as in money laundering. All the corrupt politicians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka go there. They convert their black money to gold in their internal market. Smuggle it to Dubai. Sell the gold, get US Dollars.

  • They also announced they plan to adopt the 'broken windows' policing methodology.
  • Dubai is just a typical place, like Anytown USA.
  • Seems like the right choice for them.

"The vast majority of successful major crimes against property are perpetrated by individuals abusing positions of trust." -- Lawrence Dalzell

Working...